Overview
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Cast
- Louis Gossett Jr. as Tom Hayward
- Clu Gulager as Marvin Tayman
- Mary Alice as Minnie Hayward
- Barry Brown as Fred Tayman
- Barton Heyman as George Tayman
- James McEachin as Harris McIntyre
- Lonny Chapman as Sheriff Harvey Johnson
- James McEacheon as Harris McIntyre
- Helen Martin as Mrs. Cartwright
- John Crawford as Sgt. Hunt